What would be of Oslojente if she was US American Citizen..?? (26)

Good post, Nelson! ~smiles~

I know. It's sad. The USA is a great country and it must hurt to have people poke fun at it. There are some wonderful things about not traveling if you are a US citizen. If you're a felon (i.e. if you have commited a FEDERAL offence) I believe you can't get a passport - so you keep some of your worst people at home.

Sometimes I've been totally ashamed to be a UK citizen (or 'British' as I like to call myself as I was, in fact, born in East Africa). We allow some of worst ambassadors to travel freely abroad - the drunken 'youff' and football hooligans and criminals who give my country a bad name with their loutish, ignorant, and totally dickhead behaviour.

In the good old bad old days when only people with money could travel, the worst thing you could complain about were nice German people getting up at the crack of dawn and claiming deckchairs by the swimming pool with their towels; if they did that now they'd probably find their towels and 'claimed' deckchairs floating in the pool covered in some fresh British vomit or worse!

Once upon a time American tourists were considered 'rich' and easy prey for people who liked to rip them off, now the falling dollar is making it more expensive for ordinary Americans to 'do Europe' ('What day is it honey? - this must be Paris!' is like likely to be heard on the streets of London or Rome as in days gone by).

I went to an American highschool in the Congo for a whole year - I liked it, although it put my education back many years. Decades later I married an American woman, who is proud of her country, but also glad she bought herself a passport and visited places she'd have never gone to if she hadn't had the (maybe) misfortune of meeting me.

Travel does broaden the mind, and should be part of education. Europeans, including Brits, do not have to be rich to safely visit other countries, meet interesting people and contract exotic diseases (sorry, last was a joke). Unfortunately, one of the few ways young Americans can afford to travel is to join the US Army, Navy or Air Force.

The UK came second last only to the USA in a recent survey that tried to determine which country had the best quality of life for a child. The Netherlands (inhabited by disgusting weird people who talk double Dutch fluidly) came top of that survey.

People in the USA (the once great land of opportunity) are nolonger so socially mobile - a kid from a poor home in the states is more likely to grow up and remain poor than a poor kid in any European country! I've only been to three USA states. I could not believe how bland everything and almost everybody looked in the three states I visited. It made me feel very sad. I met many very good people, but there was something lacking that made it seem like an alien land to me.

I do hope, however, that the USA survives as a superpower at least for the remainder of my lifetime. The next superpower might be more interesting, but also one hell of a lot more frightening!

God Bless America!

Let me straighten up something here!

I may have lived in 3 different Eutopeans countries and been to a few others... So what!
How do you know that "I'm looking down the noses of poor Americans"? How do you know what my background is?
How do you know it's not like those jewish jokes... you know! the best jewish jokes are told by jewish people themselves... and the ones who find them the funniest are the jewish people themselves because they recognise themselves! Ask Maureen Lipman!

2 many people making assumptionns, judging others and giving big lectures in these forums!

Lighten up people! Life has it's own way of giving us reality checks without us going around seeing negativity in every sentence and round every corner!

We do here as well...

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Very good post indeed - what a shame it had to be finishing in the better the devil I know attitude - it dissapointed me somewhat - thou one is used it